Gospel: Mark 4: 26-34
For centuries farmers have been planting and harvesting crops. Farmers know a great deal about what is needed for crops to be successful. This knowledge has come through many years of experience passed on from one generation to another. Every now and then new information becomes available to them - new techniques, fertilizer, and the like that will add to their knowledge and skill set in order to be successful at farming.
But most people do not know the intricate biological science of how plants come to grow from a seed to a full plant. Botanists and cell biologists have this knowledge, and it is important. But as long as the necessary conditions for growth exist, growth in a plant will take place whether we have knowledge of its processes or not.
And so it is in the spiritual life as well. The inner life of God and his interaction with the heart of a human being will forever be a mystery we will never know. But the growth of this relationship will ever grow as long as the right conditions are present - a heart that receives the mercy of God and extends that mercy outward toward others.
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